Visitor support system, visitor support method, and recording medium

• US 20070233548A1
• Filed: 03/15/2007
• Published: 10/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Takeshi Okawa
• Original Assignee: Takeshi Okawa
• Inventors: Okawa, Takeshi
• Application Number:
  US11/724,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20070233548A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety

Abstract

Visitor support database stores information on visitors and staff members in charge of visitors. Visitor support server receives information on visitor from reception device and specifies staff member in charge of him/her. Server extracts information describing the visitor from the information on the visitor, generates correspondence message, and sends it to a staff member terminal.

Booth terminal specifies visitors in a booth based on reception information and information on visitors stored in database, and determines whether the visitors have an inclination. When the visitors have an inclination, booth terminal performs a demo to be performed at the booth according to this inclination.

Database stores information on handouts distributed at booths, and booth entry information. On receiving departure information from reception device, server specifies unvisited booths of a visitor based on the booth entry information, extracts information on handouts distributed at specified booths from database, and sends them to reception device.

Claims

1. A visitor support system, comprising:

a prospective visitor information storage unit which stores information for specifying a prospective visitor who has a possibility of coming to a site and staff member specifying information for specifying a staff member who is to be in charge of the prospective visitor in association with each other;

a visitor information receiving unit which receives information for specifying a visitor who is checked at a reception, from a terminal device at the reception at which visitors are checked;

a staff member acquiring unit which acquires the staff member specifying information that specifies a staff member to be in charge of the visitor checked at the reception, based on the information for specifying the visitor received by said visitor information receiving unit, and the information stored in said prospective visitor information storage unit;

a correspondence message generating unit which generates a correspondence message for notifying that the visitor who is specified by the information for specifying the visitor received by said visitor information receiving unit has arrived at the site; and

a correspondence message sending unit which sends the correspondence message generated by said correspondence message generating unit to an address previously assigned to the staff member specified by the staff member specifying information acquired by said staff member acquiring unit.

2. The visitor support system according to claim 1, further comprising

a visitor status receiving unit which receives status information indicating a visit status of the checked visitor, from said terminal device at the reception,

wherein said correspondence message generating unit generates a correspondence message for notifying the status indicated by the status information received by said visitor status receiving unit.

3. The visitor support system according to claim 2,

wherein the status information is information indicating a number of accompanying persons who accompany the checked visitor.

4. The visitor support system according to claim 1,

wherein said prospective visitor information storage unit further stores information for specifying a product which a prospective visitor, who is stored, is interested in, in association with the information for specifying the prospective visitor, and

said visitor support system further comprises:

a product explanatory material storage unit which stores the information for specifying the product and data of an explanatory material for explaining the product in association with each other;

a product-of-interest specifying unit which specifies a product which the checked visitor is interested in, based on the information stored in said prospective visitor information storage unit;

a product explanatory material acquiring unit which acquires data of an explanatory material for explaining the product specified by said product-of-interest specifying unit, from said product explanatory material storage unit;

an explanatory material sending unit which sends the data acquired by said product explanatory material acquiring unit to said terminal device at the reception; and

an explanatory material printing unit which prints the explanatory material by using the data sent from said explanatory material sending unit.

5. The visitor support system according to claim 1,

wherein in a case where no response to the correspondence message is returned from the staff member who is an addressee of the correspondence message within a predetermined period of time after the correspondence message is sent, said correspondence message sending unit sends the correspondence message to a staff member to serve in place, who is pre-associated with the staff member.

6. The visitor support system according to claim 1, which is for supporting a visitor, who has come to a predetermined site having a plurality of booths, in seeing around the site,

wherein said prospective visitor information storage unit further stores attribute information indicating an attribute of a prospective visitor, who is stored, in association with the stored information for specifying the prospective visitor, and

said visitor support system further comprises:

a booth entry/leave information storage unit which stores information for specifying a visitor who enters any predetermined one of the booths, and entry/leave information indicating dates and times of entry and leave the visitor enters and leaves the booth, in association with each other;

a booth visitor specifying unit which specifies visitors who are in the predetermined booth, based on the information stored in said booth entry/leave information storage unit;

an attribute information specifying unit which specifies the attribute information of the visitors who are in the predetermined booth, specified by said booth visitor specifying unit, based on the information stored in said prospective visitor information storage unit;

a demo specifying unit which specifies a demo to be performed in the booth, based on the attributed information specified by said attribute information specifying unit; and

a demo performing unit which performs the demo specified by said demo specifying unit.

7. The visitor support system according to claim 6,

wherein said demo specifying unit comprises an inclination determining unit which determines whether the attributes indicated by the attribute information specified by said attribute information specifying unit have a predetermined inclination, and

in a case where said inclination determining unit determines that the attributes have a predetermined inclination, said demo specifying unit specifies a demo according to the predetermined inclination.

8. The visitor support system according to claim 6,

wherein said demo specifying unit specifies at least one of a product to be demonstrated, a content of the demo, and a place at which the demo is performed.

9. The visitor support system according claim 7, further comprising

a demo information storage unit which stores data of a demo to be performed in any predetermined booth, and inclination information indicating an inclination of attributes of visitors, for which the demo is expected to be effective, in association with each other,

wherein in a case where inclination determining unit determines that the attributes have a predetermined inclination, said demo specifying unit specifies data of a demo which matches the predetermined inclination, from the information stored in said demo information storage unit.

10. The visitor support system according to claim 7,

wherein the attribute information includes at least one of information pieces indicating a business category, age, sex, and residence area of a visitor, and

said inclination determining unit determines that visitors have a predetermined inclination, when there is a certain bias in business categories, ages, sexes, or residence areas of the visitors, which are indicated by the attribute information specified by said attribute information specifying unit.

11. The visitor support system according to claim 1, which is for supporting a visitor, who has come to a predetermined site having a plurality of booths, in seeing around the site, said system further comprising:

a booth visitor information receiving unit which receives information for specifying a visitor who is checked by a terminal device which checks visitors who are to enter any of the booths, and a booth specifying information for specifying a booth entered by the visitor, from said terminal device;

a booth visitor storage unit which stores the information for specifying the visitor and the booth specifying information, which are received by said booth visitor information receiving unit, in association with each other;

a departing person information receiving unit which receives information for specifying a departing person, who is checked by said terminal device at the reception at which departing persons who are to leave the predetermined site are checked, from said terminal device;

an unvisited booth specifying unit which specifies a booth which has not been visited by the departing person, from the information for specifying the departing person received by said departing person information receiving unit and the information stored in said booth visitor storage unit; and

a display unit which displays the booth specified by said unvisited booth specifying unit as not having been visited.

12. The visitor support system according to claim 11, comprising:

a handout storage unit which stores the booth specifying information for specifying a booth, and data of a handout distributed at the booth, in association with each other;

a handout extracting unit which extracts data of a handout distributed at the booth specified by said unvisited booth specifying unit, from data of handouts stored in said handout storage unit;

a handout sending unit which sends the data of the handout extracted by said handout extracting unit to said terminal device at the reception; and

a handout printing unit which prints the handout by using the data of the handout sent from said handout sending unit.

13. The visitor support system according to claim 12,

wherein said prospective visitor information storage unit further stores information for specifying a product which a prospective visitor, who is stored, is interested in, in association with the stored information for specifying the prospective visitor,

said handout storage unit further stores product specifying information for specifying a product, which is featured at a booth specified by the stored booth specifying information, in association with the booth specifying information, and

said handout extracting unit:

comprises a product-of-interest featuring booth specifying unit which specifies a booth which features a product which the departing person is interested in, among booths specified by said unvisited booth specifying unit as not having been visited by the departing person, based on the information stored in said prospective visitor information storage unit and said handout storage unit; and

extracts data of a handout distributed at the booth specified by said product-of-interest featuring booth specifying unit from the data of handouts stored in said handout storage unit.

14. A visitor support method, comprising:

a prospective visitor information storing step of storing information for specifying a prospective visitor who has a possibility of coming to a site and staff member specifying information for specifying a staff member who is to be in charge of the prospective visitor in association with each other;

a visitor information receiving step of receiving information for specifying a visitor who is checked at a reception, from a terminal device at the reception at which visitors are checked;

a staff member acquiring step of acquiring the staff member specifying information that specifies a staff member to be in charge of the checked visitor, from the information for specifying the visitor received at said visitor information receiving step and the information stored at said prospective visitor information storing step;

a correspondence message generating step of generating a correspondence message for notifying that the visitor specified by the information for specifying the visitor received at the visitor information receiving step has arrived at the site; and

a correspondence message sending step of sending the correspondence message generated at said correspondence message generating step to an address previously assigned to the staff member specified by the staff member specifying information acquired at said staff member acquiring step.

15. A recording medium storing a program for controlling a computer to function as:

a prospective visitor information storage unit which stores information for specifying a prospective visitor who has a possibility of coming to a site and staff member specifying information for specifying a staff member who is to be in charge of the prospective visitor in association with each other;

a visitor information receiving unit which receives information for specifying a visitor who is checked at a reception, from a terminal device at the reception at which visitors are checked;

a staff member acquiring unit which acquires the staff member specifying information that specifies a staff member to be in charge of the visitor checked at the reception, based on the information for specifying the visitor received by said visitor information receiving unit, and the information stored in said prospective visitor information storage unit;

a correspondence message generating unit which generates a correspondence message for notifying that the visitor who is specified by the information for specifying the visitor received by said visitor information receiving unit has arrived at the site; and

a correspondence message sending unit which sends the correspondence message generated by said correspondence message generating unit to an address previously assigned to the staff member specified by the staff member specifying information acquired by said staff member acquiring unit.